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Date Sold	Category	Lot	Description	Sale Price
03/03/2024 Auction 184	Medals	Lot 1008	Order of Chiang Kai Shek (c.1920s) comprising of a China Dollar style coin in the centre on a 90mm two-piece surround enamelled in Red, yellow, blue green and white, some of the enamel missing, Chinese text raised on the reverse, stamped 085, with clip, NVF More medals like this	£46
04/12/2022 Auction 179	Medals	Lot 853	China - The Chinese Exhibition undated (1843) 45mm diameter in white metal by Thomas Halliday, Birmingham, BHM 2107. Obverse: CHUN AH-YOU OF THE CHINESE COLLECTIUON above bust of Ah-You three-quarters right in mandarin's robes and cap. Reverse: Legend in thirteen lines: THE CELEBRATED / CHINESE COLLECTION / [FROM HYDE PARK CORNER] / VISITED BY THE QUEEN / THE QUEEN DOWAGER AND / ALL THE ROYAL FAMILY / NOW EXHIBITING IN LIVERPOOL / "THERE IS NO EXHIBITION CAN COMPARE / "WITH IT IN ORIENTAL RANDEUR / "AND BEAUTIFUL ARRANGMENT" / THE TIMES! / AH YOU WILL ATTEND EACH / DAY AND EVENING. with 1848 inscribed below. 25.23 grammes, NEF and lustrous. The collection was formed by Nathan Dunn a Philadelphia-born China Trade merchant, and was first exhibited in the city in 1839. A report of the exhibition states: 'What increases the interest of the scene is a young Chinese, in full costume, who walks around the hall in full costume explaining the exhibits to the visitors in a most amiable manner that shows he is gratified in being useful'. No doubt this is Chun Ah-You, who accompanied the exhibition to London in 1841. The exhibition was initially exhibited in Hyde Park in a special pagoda, and was open to the public from April to June 1842. After some repairs to the lanterns which were now lit by gas, the exhibition re-opened in November 1843 until the end of the year. The collection then returned to the United States following Dunn's death in 1844, and later returned to England again in 1851 for the Great Exhibition. On 10 December 1851 Christie's auctioned 'The Celebrated Assemblage...collected by the late Nathan Dunn' More medals like this	£1,300
05/06/2022 Auction 177	Medals	Lot 830	Japan (23) 1937 Chinese Incident, Second Sino-Japanese War in bronze with ribbon and bar (3) VF, NEF and NEF the third boxed, Japan 2600th National Anniversary Commemorative Medal 1940 in bronze GEF boxed, Japan - Manchurian Foundation National Merit Medal 1933 VF with ribbon, boxed, Japan 1931-1934 Manchurian incident in bronze with ribbon and bar, Japan 1920-1921 First National Census EF with ribbon, the reverse with a few small spots, Japan 1894 Sino-Japanese War, in bronze, EF with some light surface residue, this possibly removable with care, Japan 1904-05 Russo-Japanese War medal in gilded bronze GEF in the wooden box of issue, Japan 1914-1920 Russo-Japan War GEF in the wooden box of issue, Japan Fire Brigade badges (6) a merit badge for the Imperial Visit of Prince Nashimoto 1937. The design shows a pair of Phoenix flanking an Edo era Fireman's signal device (Matoi), struck to commemorate the Prince's Visit to the Hiroshima Fire Brigade (April 9, 1937) the legend on the reverse shows the date of the visit. Made by the Nagai Medal Company VF with pin on reverse, along with a further group of Japanese Fire Brigade Badges (5) includes merit and Long Service badges, mostly 1930s issues one with red enamelling, another with green enamelling, these in the wooden boxes of issue, Japan Order of the Rising Sun 7th Class in silver with both sides enamelled, with ribbon, hook and eye, EF boxed, Order of the Rising Sun 8th Class in silver (3) NEF to EF boxed, The order is awarded to those who have made distinguished achievements in the following fields: international relations, promotion of Japanese culture, advancements in their field, development in welfare or preservation of the environment. Prior to the end of the Second World War, it was also awarded for exemplary military service. Beginning in 2003, the two lowest rankings (7th and 8th classes) for the Order of the Rising Sun were abolished, with the highest degree becoming a separate order known as the Order of the Paulownia Flowers, with the single rank of Grand Cordon. While it is the third highest order bestowed by the Japanese government, it is however generally the highest ordinarily conferred order. Japan Order of the Sacred Treasure 8th Class GVF in the box of issue, along with Japan (2) non-military award medals 44mm diameter each with a white enamelled book in the centre with dark blue, pale blue and red enamelling in the blue folders of issue, along with an additional box this unrelated More medals like this	£260
06/06/2021 Auction 173	Medals	Lot 1063	International Society of Postmasters a collection of 13 Silver Crown-sized Proofs, January 1975-January 1976 issues, nFDC to FDC housed in the album of issue, along with Chinese Coins a 10 coin set of Cash Coinage 1644-1911 covering Shun-Chi to Shuen-Tung dynasties, these modern replicas, as made, Straits Settlements One Cent 1884 VG, Ceylon 10 Cents 1944 VG, Singapore 5 Dollars 1981 Changi Airport UNC in a slide case, GB (15) Five Pound Crowns (2) 1990 Queen Mother 90th Birthday, 1993 Coronation 40th Anniversary, Fifty Pence 1973 EEC, Florins (3) 1963, 1965, 1966, Shillings (7) 1948S, 1954E, 1954S, 1955S, 1956E, 1958S, 1966S, Penny 1967, Halfpenny 1965 in mixed grades, Medals (4) SEAP Games 1973 UNC in the slide case of issue, Greenwich Meridian 1984 in bronze UNC, London Zoo 2000 in bronze UNC, Singapore Jurong Bird Park 40mm diameter, undated, in Bronze UNC More medals like this	£120
07/09/2014 Auction 146	Medals	Lot 1909	The Chinese Junk 'Keying' 1848, 45mm diameter in White metal Eimer 1425 variant Obverse view of the Junk, Reverse with inscription in 16 lines with all details, UNC More medals like this	£200
02/12/2012 Auction 139	Medals	Lot 1329	Arrival of the Chinese Junk Keying in Britain 1848 Obverse broadside view of the Junk, Reverse THE CHINESE JUNK KEYING LENGTH 160 FT, BREADTH 33 FT, DEPTH OF HOLD 16FT, HER STERN IS 35FT, HIGH OUT OF THE WATER, HER MAIN CABIN IS 30FT. LONG 25FT. WIDE, BURTHEN ABOUT 800 TONS, HER RUDDER IS OF IMMENSE SIZE AND WEIGHT, BEING MADE OF IRON WOOD, HER ANCHORS ARE MADE OF WOOD, THE CABLES ARE MADE OF BAMBOO, THE ROPES OF BAMBOO RATTEN & INDIAN GRASS, ARRIVED IN THE RIVER THAMES MARCH 27, 1848 44mm diameter in White Metal by J.Davis UNC and lustrous More medals like this	£110
05/09/2010 Auction 130	Medals	Lot 886	Treaty of Nankin 1842 in White Metal 64mm by Davis Eimer 1367, BHM 2061, Obv. Victoria Young Bust left, VICTORIA D:G: BRITANNIAR REGINA F:D:, Rev. Fame heralds the signing and exchange of the Treaty between the British and the Chinese delegations, GVF/EF with die rust marks on the obverse More medals like this	£65
01/03/2009 Auction 124	Medals	Lot 1725	The Official Medals of the Tutankhamun Exhibition-British Museum 1972 and the Chinese Exhibition-Royal Academy 1973-1974 in Silver Gilt and Fine Silver respectively UNC lightly toning cased as issued with certificate, Clark's Civil Service and Commercial College 1, 2, and 3 Chancery Lane W.C. Boy Clerks Open Competition September 1906 awarded to W.F.Burtenshaw, 45mm in Bronze UNC boxed as issued with a newspaper Photo of the recipient More medals like this	£160

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